greetings and salutation is one of the main rules laid forth in the universal golden rule book of capitalism is that you get what you pay for the idea being that the more you pay the better the product and converse leave you know the less you can converse leave the less you pay the lower quality of product and more likely to cause problems or breakdowns or whatever now normally that rule stays genuinely true unless of course we're talking about the us government and defense contractors like case in point the thirteen billion dollar us as gerald ford super carrier which apparently was delivered last year with some pretty major shall we say issues bloomberg is reporting that the u.s.

navy's costliest warship ever was delivered last year without elevators needed to lift bombs from below deck magazines were loading on fighter jets and that my friends was just the latest in a rather long list of issues with the beast of a boat that includes longstanding reliability and technical problems with two other core systems the electromagnetic system the launch planes and the arresting gear to catch them when they land. really think about that for a second we the taxpaying citizens of the united states of america all of us over here just ford over thirteen billion tax dollars for an aircraft carrier that has serious problems outfitting landing and launching aircrafts. the one thing that basically is it exists to do because if an aircraft carrier can arm launch and land planes then what good is it for. i mean besides providing good

photo ops for politicians who want to look macho and the contractors looking to line their pockets with gold yeah i think i just answered my own question. now let's start watching the whole. thing. with the. real thing this would be. the plot of. the day like you that i got. with that we. would. be. pretty. well the on the watch of the harks i robot and time top of the lot lists wow that is one heck of a fun ship and it's money well spent making america great again was how we oakley a director at the us government accountability office who monitors navy ship

building told bloomberg that this is quote just another example of the navy pushing technology risk into design and construction without fully demonstrating. well it really is pretty incredible when you see you know how this goes down we're you know we're sitting here forking over thirteen billion dollars to pay for something that doesn't actually work that just boggles my mind i mean we've seen over and over again it's not new but still no one is there to like say hey maybe we should not you know maybe we should stop. you know putting promising more than we can deliver. well i mean this is we're talking about you know defense contractors they don't have to deliver on any of thing they promise they don't have to do anything they just take the checks and show up with a hunk of metal it doesn't i mean how many things that we have that have broken blown up how many planes have dropped out of the sky how many soldiers have

actually been injured by broken equipment or faulty equipment and how many u.s. soldiers in the field have been injured or killed because they didn't have proper equipment because we couldn't afford it because we had. billions and billions of dollars on aircraft carriers that don't know how to either take off or have planes take off or land on them it's absolutely i mean it's basic it's pretty basic but nothing is basic and that this blows my mind i mean and look i mean listen this thing this is the advanced weapons elevator yeah they're moved by magnets rather than cables actually they say that these are things are going to be like the future of elevators in general but they're what i mean think about it on a plate and not have cables because cables obviously are twisted metal wire which would rust so i get a little yeah so. since twenty to dean the elevators are placed many problems including for instance an instant instances of get this unsafe command movement

so the elevator is basically moving no one is ordering it to move and that's pretty dangerous obviously. the this delayed final installation which was supposed to take place back on the ships originally delivery date of may twenty seventh now they finally have a man that was like eleven of them i think they're still putting them at the end of the bay but it is it is really incredible it's great that you can dream up these big things and you can dream up you know magnetized elevators and to you know rockets on the ship but when you can't deliver and then you take the money why should you have to give the money back if you can if you can come through with what you promised. our own president says you don't have to pay for stuff that's. they don't do a good enough job so yeah we should be able to i mean in reality it's sort of it's not the technology is fault it's a whole bunch of different departments saying i want this i want this you're building stuff we don't really need this is all part of the navy's plan to expand this you know its two hundred eighty four ship fully down to three fifty five by

the mid twenty thirty s. so the navy plans to bundle the third or fourth carriers that can't do anything i mean they could probably carry stuff they won't be able to carry they just won't be able to do anything else in the sixty eight billion dollars for class into one qantas they're splitting it all into our contract and of course congress gave them permission for the two what once contracts in this year's defense spending and policy bills despite be unresolved technical issues despite the fact that we spend a ridiculous amount of money despite the estimate about how much money it would actually save. just given whatever they want toys for everyone why have magnets that use magnets for i don't know speedy rail system for workers. we needed to load whistles of the great. joy ship cost thirty. dollars. oh lovely are you really want our homeless people on the aircraft carrier . cruise ships to aircraft we want many homes on aircraft carriers and then more

fun so you have found a use for them that's good but the only good. news for them thank you. companies have spent a reported seven hundred million dollars over the last decade trying to make it work more like a game except without any of the really good parts it started in the mid two thousand when employers tried to utilize social media apps and things like foursquare to allow employees to gain points and heard badges going about their daily tasks but it's never quite works the way employers would like data analyst todd magic's ph d. thought that employees who have a risk avoidance personality are in a bad mood. in a social pressure situation and or attempting to earn points for completing tasks will result in reduced not enhanced outcome that's because game a fake asian isn't just about encouraging workers it's about pitting them against each other in the case of a while to sneak corporation where their laundry workers union contracts were up in

two thousand and eight they implemented gamification in the form of leader boards in the workplace they are trying to tracking systems scored each laundry worker on their productivity and then posted the scores in real time all over the laundry facilities color coded like traffic lights the constant reminder didn't encourage friendly competition or make people feel they had accomplished anything it increased anxiety and on the job injuries and the once happy workplace was ruined by what many workers are calling the electronic whip so hop watchers how would you feel if your boss turned your livelihood health and future employment into a game. that is like the game of occasions of like one of those like words came up with some corporate boardroom one time later hey let's try to avoid overly idolize or employees and make them jump on board with the do it in a way that makes it so. we go because everybody was so it was or that think of what

the rise of social gaming and sort of casual gaming came up and we all remember linking back to about ten years ago we had a thing called foley square and everybody was like it will follow you wherever you go this is dangerous and that we would hold my beer and decided that everybody could just look at everything but gamification essentially is applying elements game elements video games and digital sort of design techniques to non game problems like life so the idea is to motivate people by kind of using more with personal challenges to meet personal goal so you know there's this idea that if you were. a little bit harder you get extra points and you can get bonuses but in some cases and at some companies there's it's been used a number of adobe does that. amazon also does it so the idea is that they think that if you gain points to get

a little badge or as an all these things and if your fiscally penalized if you don't meet certain requirements and you get bonuses for certain if you meet certain requirements of us somehow is going to make a more productive workplace what i mean. the thing that jumped out to me the most when we talk about the story was like the whole leaderboard aspect of me that's what they were everywhere wow and the whole every single room and imagine what the laundry room for a disney theme park underneath for the whole of disney theme parks imagine what the laundry room looked there and every report people who worked there before said it was the nicest place it was the literally the happiest place to work and everybody was really chill and people were very productive and the minute they put this in ten years ago that's when it all got horrible when it was just terrible that that is really incredible i mean disney managers essentially like you were saying earlier with this game of closing prices they could track everyone from their desk and change a person's goals while they were actually working so for

a person was running slow according to the date of the manager with an increase their goals to push them to speed up like real time and it would show up on the board so everybody could see it oh i see you're trying to compete with each other to see who gets the whole slate here's sarah johnny you know running through the motions and also them it's like jogging starts legen behind them like the rest of the team could be jogging when you're really slowing your t.p.s. reports today right but it may not have anything to do with johnny's ability to do the work it could be as simple as there weren't enough dryers out there weren't enough you know of something there could be anything but it literally kept people they would you know not go to the bathroom oh that's the. it's terrible because they're afraid it's going to mess up their their numbers and that ultimately they're what they take home beatrice who was a union organizer for unite local levon at disney she told fast company quote they had a hard time ignoring it it pushes you mentally to keep working it doesn't give you

breathing space yeah that makes a lot of yes i couldn't agree the mortgage with sounds like i mean thankfully no here at r t we don't have giant leaderboards telling us like you're not typing fast enough or you need to type faster than like that but being dropped vironment like that and then you're essentially competing with your coworkers and all of this like that would drive it really going to do that though because we all live on you know it's like when you think about television entertainment it's all you know you're competing against each other really by how many followers do you have what are your rating what are your record sales so even in our business there's how many books you sell it's just it's not put up around the office but it is it's a consequence and that your job's gone your job is going to be a lot tomorrow mountain you're making ten fifty dollars an hour and your whole livelihood depends on it. that really it really is one of those things where it's like you know what looks good on paper sometimes in the boardroom like oh this will make employees work harder it'll be fun sometimes it doesn't look good at the end

of the day when you actually put it into practice and that's because i know it is hard to imagine real life it's not a game. all right as we go to break cock watchers time for good to let us know what you think of the topics and cover the facebook and twitter and see our poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up the host of the world according to jesse one former governor jesse ventura joins us to discuss president from sending u.s. troops to our southern border states to watch the whole. backstabbers financial survival guide stacey let's learn a salad fill out let's say i'm the troika and you're pleased i'm greased on bank of

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as the immortal inscription on the statue of liberty very is give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free the wretched refuse of your teeming shore send these the homeless tempest tossed to me i lift my lamp beside the golden door a golden door that's now covered and razor wire and guarded by five thousand you armed u.s. soldiers with many many more on the way yes u.s. president donald trump announced last wednesday that response to the estimated three to five thousand central american asylum cirque seekers currently traveling from. xico on their way to the united states that he will send some ten to fifteen thousand more troops the u.s. other border and he went on to profess at a rally on saturday quote i saw that beautiful barbed wire going up to full sight

turning us now to discuss this dangerous new move from anti immigration rhetoric to razor wire fences and armed soldiers on the border is the host of the world according to jess an artsy america former governor jesse ventura. always a pleasure to have a governor and i got a i got a star what concerns you the most deploying our troops to the mexico u.s. border in response to people seeking asylum from their home countries. well first of all let's yes son former governor but i'm also a former united states navy veteran i served four years active duty and two years in the reserves so i have six years in the united states military that i served from age eighteen to twenty two on duty and all that i'll tell you what bothers me the most what bothers me the most in sending in active duty military personnel to the border is that the president in essence is putting them in

a position to commit war crimes because these are not this is not an invading army these are not armed people coming these are women and children they are old people they are all sorts of people but they are hardly a military force to be dealt with by our military there's sixteen thousand border patrol guards down there plus you've got thousands of other personnel twenty five hundred national guardsmen are there for logistical reasons i forget the high numbers you already have there and he's talking about sending anywhere from five to fifteen thousand active duty military personnel now i heard they're not frontline combat units like he wants us to believe they are. they're mostly logistic people but even still this is ridiculous it puts our military i think it's a flagrant misuse of our military for political purposes for him to look strong and

the reason he would do that is because he himself never served in the military he doesn't really understand it he thinks as commander in chief he can inform them and tell them he can do anything he wants with them and that somehow they're required to do it because he is the commander in chief tell me if you had been so i guess as . a former soldier what would your reaction to abandon receiving those orders and honestly would you have followed them. well i don't know that would be a real dilemma that's a good question you know i served back in the sixty's back when there were a lot of unrest and demonstrations it was towards the end of the vietnam war it had turned completely sour and there was a point in my career where there was a rumor that they were going to march on to our base. and it was a dilemma i faced i went to my officers and i said i i would rather not stand duty

tonight i don't know how i can deal with this and i was good enough to have officers they left me off the duty roster that night i had already had two tours to southeast asia and i personally myself did not feel comfortable fighting my own people and this of course was already after camp state had happened you know the killing of the students said kent state university so it puts you as a military person into an extremely difficult position because your job is to defend against other militaries your job is to go to war your job is not necessarily to do police work because of the whim of the president and he wants to make a political statement and i'd like to state this you know this president supposedly represents our event jellicoe the far right i would ask them all to look in the mirror and dealing with these refugees coming up here and then asked them what

would jesus do would jesus send ten thousand troops to the border with the order if you've got rocks thrown at you you were to shoot you know it's funny how we not now actually some of the reports from mexico that i saw over the weekend were selling that as they were going through towns and the mexican people saying what would jesus style populace and they were coming out with food with clothes helping them along the way i mean literally everywhere along the way there so one reporter sat you couldn't walk more than a few feet without three bottles of water and people walking around. for the mexican people actually understand what is the threat to oh i think a lot better than our president. absolutely i saw the same thing tab i saw where these poor mexican towns were stepping forward with whatever they had to help these people why because that's what their religion teaches them to do and yet we knock the mexican people i'll tell you what i know for

a fact having lived down there as long as i have at certain times they take religion a lot more serious and they do it with real sacred views of real not phony like up here up here most of the people pretend to be religious and it shows in this case right here instead of helping these refugees why do that what do we want here we're sending our military down to stop them now what's going to happen now if they can't we're to shoot them if they don't stop so in other words it's the death penalty now if you cross that fence or that border you can be shot and killed by the us military and that's a really dangerous precedent and i want to ask you you know what to what kind of message are we now sending to the rest of the world with this kind of action when when our response to asylum seekers is troops and razor wire. well it sends

a horrible message to the rest of the world like we you opened the show up with the statue of liberty and like i said would this be the same situation if those were white people i think we need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves that because let's remember something the statue of liberty faces europe. europe's predominantly white people the stat you don't face that way i've already said we should take it down and put it in the smithsonian because it's clear we do not go by what's printed on the statue of liberty today. from disrespect for the statue of liberty by the way it was actually modeled after a muslim woman that's a lot of fun facts about the statue of liberty and most people who use it for that of this white political gay and it was actually modeled after a muslim woman so it's kind of interesting that we sort of have this history we don't even know sort of what it is you mentioned kate can't state do you think that this could end up being one of those can't state moments tragically or in

tragically or or one of those where finally people kind of do see how bad it is and how do we avoid that how do we have way to having another can state moment with women until well order i don't i don't think it necessarily will be a kent state mall but now it could be it could be but you've got he's sending the regular military here remember at kent state it was the mash no guard but it was guys who were used to that type of pressure all the time we have a different national guard today we have a combat national guard today because george bush sent the national guard the combat you know back in his fiasco all the iraq war but anyway these are the professionals going down there him again they're not from either i saw generals talk they're not frontline combat guys going down there they're mostly logistic people trump is trying to make it look like they're front line combat guys like the send in the green berets down there or whatever to hold the line and all these guys

nobody lined up with tanks and all this from the from the indications i got from the military people i've heard talk it's not going to be that at all and again shame on you president trump for making it seem like it is going to be combat. ready troops ready to shoot at people down there that is not a message our president should take pride in sending in my opinion let me ask you this just what would you if you're the president if it's president ventura instead of president trump and this was coming up you know what would you do as president in his place in dealing with this situation. well what i would do in this situation see what we're not being told is a great deal of this situation is what they call blowback and it's a blow back from our policies back in the eighty's the reagan years and the ninety's back when we were all iran contra and all that stuff many you too young to

know about it but we were down there interfering in all the governments down there because we have it in our country that no other country can choose to be communist they think that that's not an option if a country decides to go socialist or whatever they immediately incur the wrath of the united states of america and that's what was happening in central america you have the u.s. style they're manipulating all the countries and then of course when the gold gets rough we usually pull out which i'm sure is what's happened now and now they've got dictators down there gangs running everything and these people are running for their lives i know that personally because i have one or two friends who have come from down there they went back to try to visit the graveyard and were too frightened to do so because they thought they'd be shot right there and one of them is a former navy seal so you know it's not b.s. . where would we just open up the border i mean do things like would you go how

would you hand like what are they doing about a minute left how would you you know help these people if you were you certainly don't you know ok i'm going to have some fun here and say this and make this statement isn't it interesting today we're all human beings of the planet earth but you can only travel around it if you've got the right paperwork you've got to have proper paperwork human beings to go around our planet now having said that because that's utopia and we're not going to see you ever see that world where you could travel freely but anyway the thing we've got to do is develop a legitimate policy here everybody talks about it everybody bellyaches about it we've got to relax. people it comes back to us in electing the people who will go there who worked across the lines with each other to get the job done you have to elect people that put the country first not their political party first that's the problem we have today all the people are elected their loyalty is first to their

political party then their money people then their own personal views and we the people might be forth. you know i've got to say yeah that's the sad truth of the situation today is it not and man alive i really i think we can all agree that our hearts and prayers go out to these people coming up through mexico and i really hope that nothing bad happens you know when they get up to our border fence light at the end of the day you know i mean that it really does it really is frightening at the end of the day so it rained you know jess i got to say i got to say thank you so much for coming on today always a pleasure having you on great to talk to you about this subject matter thank you for letting me vent needed at least once a week thank you well definitely check out your venting on the world according to jesse always a pleasure thank you so much everybody. who might want to show love so

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